School Choice without Vouchers

The School Choice movement wants to change only one
thing: PARENTS choose a school, instead of forcing kids into a
government monopoly school.

Keep it SimpleIn the present system your child's school gets paid for each
day s/he attends. There is nothing wrong with that. Don't create
vouchers people need to qualify for; make it work the way government
schools get paid now. The money simply needs to follow kids to
whatever school their PARENT chooses.

Control Government
buys other services from the private sector, why not education? We do
not prohibit Medicare funds from buying services at private hospitals
when your grandfather needs heart surgery, why pick on schools?
Answer: The government education monopoly wants control.
Is there any reason why you should not control the education
dollars for your own child? We can't think of one.

U.S. Education - Dead Last

Before the 70's our economy was based on the
automobile, but a complacent automobile industry failed to make
changes. Japanese cars invaded, and canceled our dominance. The
resulting outflow of dollars to Japan devastated our economy. That
outflow is about to start again, this time to pay high salaries to
well-educated workers overseas.

Exported American Jobs

The Government Education Monopoly continues to imperil
our economy by failing miserably at preparing the workforce. Business
increasingly looks for talent overseas. The world's greatest
concentration of PhD's is in Seoul, Korea and half of Americans can't
even find Seoul on a map. Microsoft India taps Indian programming and
engineering skills with 83,000 certifications issued in 1999. In 2001
we imported 331,000 H-1B
professionals, half of them with PhD's. In 2004 we graduated 70,000
engineers, India graduated 350,000, China graduated 600,000, leading
to erosion in America's scientific prowess. Unless we re-tool
education, there is a strong likelihood that America will get
overtaken in education the way we did in automobiles. Jobs will go to
foreigners because they are better prepared.

4Choice Mission

Develop simple, understandable, effective legislation
that the public will demand enacted.

Promote that legislation among legislators and Choice groups.

Debunk the myths and specious negative campaign of the
government education monopoly.